在这样一个春末夏初小雨淅沥的夜晚，又恰逢独自一人，最适合看一部类似《五十度灰》这样耐人寻味的电影了。显然，这部片子的重点是SM。但我更愿意从另一个角度来解读这个故事。

          片子的开头，在男主的办公室内，一股强烈的荷尔蒙气息就已经扑面而来。显然，女主那样一个单纯的小女生是抵抗不住男主强大的魅力的。于是，关系就这样展开了。
          只是，不如人意的是，女主渐渐爱上了男主，想发展正常人类的长久的恋人关系。而男主想要的只是诸多rules下的肉体关系，以达到某种满足和快感，这种满足与快感的获得途径则是片子重点突出的男主施虐者身份的SM倾向。

          这部片子不得不讨论的就是男主为什么会有会有SM倾向及施虐者角色癖好。片中提供了几个线索：1. 男主的亲生母亲是瘾君子，且是个妓女；男主很小的时候就离开了亲生母亲，来到了新家庭；2. 男主小时候为了取悦新家庭的父母，努力学习钢琴；3. 男主自己说自己有50 shades of fucked up；4. 15岁时他曾作为被施虐者角色与母亲的一位女友保持了长达六年的关系。
          我眼前不由呈现出关于男主的画面：一个瘦削的面色发白的略有营养不良的小男孩，与瘾君子的亲生母亲生活在一个肮脏不堪的小房子里，周围经常充斥着污言秽语，到处是灰暗、冰冷、绝望，没有一丝丝温暖和光亮，深深的恐惧和不安全感时刻围绕着男主。在男主4岁那年，她的亲生母亲死了。中间也许进入过孤儿院之类的机构，最后被现在的新家庭收养了。新家庭里有和蔼可亲的父母和一对友好的兄妹。强烈的不安全感和对安定富裕生活的渴望让男主害怕，害怕不能融入新家庭，害怕不被新家庭接纳，害怕自己不被新父母喜欢，于是，他努力学习，学习钢琴、跳舞等各项才艺，在学校各项都拿A，是公认的优等生，毕业之后在商界也是翘楚。
          然而，他内心那种深深的不安全感始终让他不能像正常人一样去爱别人，也让别人爱。他在20多年的成长过程中，没有真正地爱过别人，也没有打开心扉去体验被别人爱的滋味（新家庭的父母兄妹应该是爱他的）。因为，他怕，怕一旦袒露心扉展现真我就会失去。他儿时的阴影让他不能承受失去。即使是真的失去也是他主动放弃。片中我们看到，合同里男主列出的诸多rules都是男主处于主人／主动／至高的地位，而被动的一方则像奴隶一样侍候男主，甚至连抚摸皮肤这样的动作都要经过男主同意。所以，男主不愿意与别人发展亲密关系，有的只是肉体关系。单纯的肉体关系让他感觉很安全，没有责任，没有牵挂，女人在他眼里就是猎物，他自己则是寻找猎物的hunter。
          所幸，男主并非病入膏肓，不可救药，从片中可以看出，男主也已经爱上了女主，即使他自己不愿意承认。
          另一个比较有趣的线索是，男主曾经与母亲的一位女友保持着SM的关系。母亲的女友肯定是一位中年妇女，家境应该比较富裕。也许已到中年的丈夫在性生活上并不能满足她，而俊俏的男主成了她的猎物。因此，她也就成为男主SM的启蒙者与“导师”。当时，男主与那位中年妇女相比，肯定处于弱势一方，所以在SM中就扮演着受虐者角色，就如今天的女主。同时，他也享受着这一角色。如同他自己所说“感到自由，放松，没有责任，安全”，而一旦他成长起来以后，他势必就要变成施虐者的一方，来获得属于他的控制感和快感。

          看到结尾，感觉故事还没有结束，意犹未尽。期待后续，可以讲讲男主通过心理咨询治愈自己并最终与女主快乐地在一起的故事，哈哈，狗尾续貂，请见谅。

     《五十度灰》不是一篇大作品，但拍得很好看，除了男女主角颜值较高，性爱场面也很唯美，似乎是有性虐部分，但并不觉得，表达适可而止，情之所至，符合人物性格走向，视觉观感并没有不舒服之感。

    我只是想表达的是，似乎是扮演两性关系中服从者的安娜其实一直是自己的主宰，而似乎是掌控者的克里斯蒂安其实没有那么强悍，最后却是个被俘虏和改变的人。克里斯蒂安一上来交往的目的就很明确，不爱谈情说爱，不找女友，只是找性的服从者，愉悦彼此。而安娜的交往也从未改变，“我是学英国文学，多少是浪漫的”，“我从不滥情，珍惜节操，一直找那个对的人”。两个人一开始的交往目的一直是错位的，但一个因为朦胧的喜欢而故意弱化对方性虐的目的性，一个又因为性的吸引、安娜的纯真不由自主的坠入情网。但情感发展之快，彼此都始料未及，安娜对克里渐生的爱意让她不能满足只是性交，她要得更多，她希望走入克里的 内心世界，希望弄明白“为什么不能睡在爱人的身边，为什么不能抚摸对方，为什么要接受莫名的惩罚，为什么只能做你的性奴隶？”而克里对安娜由性生爱，看到了安娜人性中美好、善良的一面，但从小经历的生母身体的虐待（被生母烟蒂烫伤的胸部）、养母朋友的性虐经历让他不能轻易舍弃人在虐与被虐中获得快感的人生主体经验，从小要取悦养母以获得生存的资本，他更渴望一直做自我人生的主宰。他不敢相信人性的美好，相信人与人之间除了相互利用，还有无价的爱情存在。所以在安娜的逼问下，他说他有五十道灰色阴影，没有什么为什么，“that’s the way I am.”甚至面对安娜爱的表白，他坚定的摇头“you cann’t love me.”

   但安娜至始至终是遵从内心的人。热爱哈代，就去读英国文学；没有找到对的人，就洁身自好。遇到克里也是如此，被你吸引，我就与你交往，同时渴望了解你。虽然我已爱上你，但你不能爱我，我就选择离开，两性交往的前提是爱情，这在安娜看来是天经地义。虽然你是亿万富翁，拥有豪宅产业；虽然你用直升机与我约会；让我体验最刺激的空中飞行；虽然你给我貂裘汽车，但如果没有爱，一切则都是没有意义。所以安娜一脸严肃地告诉克里，我要回我自己的老爷车，我不稀罕你任何物质，没有爱，我情愿回到我自己，我是我情感的主人。

   而克里其实也已爱上安娜，让他不经意流露“其实是安娜你在改变我”，当安娜决绝离开时，他快步追上，无奈安娜喝止他，但电梯门关上的一刻，他不禁深情呼唤“安娜……”从小到大没有人情温慰的克里似乎有所领悟，但他不能确定，他无法马上感化，但内心却已有一丝温柔已经升起，是的，他是喜欢安娜的。他感受到安娜的爱，一次次希望抚摸他，表达内心的爱恋；感受到安娜的关心，哪怕争吵后即将分离，我还是为你做一顿早餐。他一直希望主导一切，甚至两性关系，但此时他在慢慢改变，他慢慢在被安娜的爱俘虏，他其实发现，原来这么多年，他也是希望被爱的，而不仅仅虐与被虐，从单纯的性交中获得掌控的快乐。所以关系发展之最后，他已慢慢无力回应安娜的诘问，他不能坦白，但又无法抽离；他虽然还是坚定，但已然开始瓦解。“that’s the way I am”这句话显然已疲以应对。

   谁是谁的服从者？真的力量永远最具穿透力，虽然克里深谙生意之道，深谙人际交往互利之道，但在安娜一份纯真的爱情面前，他不再坚挺。

友情提醒：這篇“影評”是我看完後，無聊要記錄下一些心情而已，對他人可能很沒用哦，思維混亂而且又很長，大家不要浪費時間看了，我也不想再收到差評提醒了，謝謝！






這片還蠻好笑的嘛，幾乎從頭笑到尾了。吐槽的吐得很歡樂。。。

因為開始是一家Australian company published這本書，所以這邊還蠻愛報導的，之前weekend Sydney Morning Herald就有publisher的interview.

這個星期的weekend SMH主版有“More sex please, we're hooked on different shades”.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/more-sex-please-were-hooked-on-different-shades-20120907-25jnr.html

With global sales of 40 million, the success of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy has encouraged a crop of imitators.

The Australian bookstore chain, Dymocks, estimates 40 titles in this genre have been published or republished in the wake of Fifty Shades's March release, warranting a new category called steamy fiction.

''While the best of the 'copycat' books for Dymocks have only sold a fraction of Fifty Shades, these are nevertheless strong sellers for us that have, almost without exception, entered our top 10 bestseller lists on release and we are buying up everything that comes our way while our customers are showing such a strong appetite for it,'' said a Dymocks buyer, Sophie Higgins.

然後，

The adult fiction publishing house Clandestine Classics is reworking classics such as Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice to include explicit sex scenes.

他們要出erotic版的romantic classics了，OMG～～～

副版有作者先生的interview。。。

Fifty shades of success: my wife, the publishing genius

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/fifty-shades-of-success-my-wife-the-publishing-genius-20120907-25jbh.html

When she came up with the saga that was to become Fifty Shades Of Grey, she started to gather a fanatical following for her steamy sex scenes and cliffhanger endings. She'd write a new chapter every week or so, and I would proof-read it, checking her spelling, punctuation and occasionally suggesting a tweak if I thought the meaning was unclear. One night a week we'd sit at her laptop and go through her latest instalment, and somehow we managed that for 18 months without killing each other. We did fall out once; I stomped off without finishing the chapter, and she published it anyway, and if any commas were in the wrong place, no one noticed.

Whenever Erika encountered a story problem, she'd describe it, and I would come up with a simple solution that was clear, elegant and always so utterly wrong she'd immediately devise her own.

還幫忙Proofreading。。。

Nobody could have imagined how Fifty Shades would take off. At first there were rumours on Twitter that American mums were exchanging copies at school gates. Then, on New Year's Eve last year, messages arrived from Hollywood producers asking about movie rights, and a review appeared on Amazon by a reader who mentioned that every woman in her New York hair salon was either reading the book or talking about it.

......the original publisher couldn't meet the demand, and bookshops were constantly running out of stock. Even when Random House took over as publisher, they could barely keep up. By June it was causing paper shortages in the US, and lumber mills in Canada were rehiring laid-off workers.

還貢獻就業。。。

Commentators can speculate on ridiculous royalty figures and imply that our afternoons are spent in an infinity pool with goblets of Bolly, but in real life the dog has to be walked, the kids fed and there are ageing relatives and the next novel to fret about. Yes we have swapped our old Honda for a shiny VW, but that's about it.

片子裡面說作者一個小時賺£7，000。。。

Mr EL James身後那張畫是Caravaggio的Bacchus。。。




還有。。。the sound track!

from Kings of Leon to the 16th century choral work of Thomas Tallis, "there's a whole world out there, slightly difficult classical music and dirty books to be explored, classic FM would probably do a shaggy classical album".

Fifty Shades of Grey sends sales of Thomas Tallis's Spem in Alium soaring

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jul/16/fifty-shades-of-grey-tallis


"The singing starts again … building and building, and he rains down blows on me … and I groan and writhe … Lost in him, lost in the astral, seraphic voices … I am completely at the mercy of his expert touch …

"'What was that music?' I mumble almost inarticulately.

"'It's called Spem in Alium, a 40-part motet by Thomas Tallis.'

"'It was … overwhelming.'"

It may not quite be what Thomas Tallis, the 16th-century court composer, had in mind when he composed his extraordinary devotional choral work, Spem in Alium. After all, it is a sacred motet expressing man's hope and trust in the Lord.

But thanks to its role in this year's publishing sensation Fifty Shades of Grey, EL James's novel exploring the joys of sado-masochism, Tallis has reached the top of the UK classical music charts. The Tallis Scholars' 1985 recording of Spem in Alium has outsold even the tenor Luciano Pavarotti to reach the number one slot.

然後什麼sex toy啊，什麼類似"red room"的房間都大賣，Calvin Klein underwear和VW銷量應該也有增加吧，一本書帶動了global GDP啊。。。

還有很多人預言會出現baby boom，新加坡不是說birth rate太低嗎，可以試下Fifthy Shades。。。




 

小说改编

韩式开头（女屌逆袭高富帅） 日式过程（sex & 凌辱sm 捆版play等） 美式结局（摆明了我有第二部）

顺便po上quora上对原著小说的评价

Here's a reprint from an Amazon review that says it better than I can:

About half way through the book, I looked up the author to see if she was a teenager. I really did because the characters are out of a 16 year old's fantasy. The main male character is a billionaire (not a millionaire but a billionaire) who speaks fluent French, is basically a concert level pianist, is a fully trained pilot, is athletic, drop dead gorgeous, tall, built perfectly with an enormous penis, and the best lover on the planet. In addition, he's not only self made but is using his money to combat world hunger. Oh yeah, and all of this at the ripe old age of 26! And on top of that, he's never working. Every second is spent having sex or texting and emailing the female character. His billions seem to have just come about by magic. It seriously feels like 2 teenage girls got together and decided to create their "dream man" and came up with Christian Grey.

Then come the sex scenes. The first one is tolerable but as she goes on, they become so unbelievable that it becomes more laughable than erotic. She orgasms at the drop of a hat. He says her name and she orgasms. He simply touches her and she orgasms. It seems that she's climaxing on every page.

Then there's the writing. If you take out the parts where the female character is blushing or chewing her lips, the book will be down to about 50 pages. Almost on every single page, there is a whole section devoted to her blushing, chewing her lips or wondering "Jeez" about something or another. Then there's the use of "shades of". He's "fifty shades of @#$%% up," "she turned 7 shades of crimson," "he's ten shades of x,y, and z." Seriously?

The writing is just not up to par, the characters are unbelievable, and the sex verges on the comical. I don't know what happens in the remaining books and I do not intend to read them to find out. But given the maturity level of the first book, I imagine that they get married, have 2 perfect children, cure world hunger, and live happily ever after while riding into the sunset, as the female character climaxes on her horse causing her to chew her bottom lip and blush fifty shades of crimson.
http://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Shad...
Updated 8 Jan

第一：没有逻辑，只是从男主的小时候个人经历的悲惨讲阴影，以现在的事业成功映射他的辛苦以及各种心酸，男主做到那个高层次的位置，水平还是low到爆的那种。
第二，缺少激情，毫无主题感觉，非要说出点主题，就是通过女主的踌躇放荡，到最后她妈妈给她启示，要认识自己，无非就是认识自己的需求，女主major英国文学想，虽承认自己是个浪漫的人，然而缺少一种包容心态看待，对事物看法不全面还有偏见，智商还是有一些的。
第三，主人公演技一般，男主萌类型，不适合演这种霸道总裁的气场不负，女主气场还行，选择还一般般OK。
第四，电影剪辑生硬，部分关键部分不流畅毫无兴趣点。
all in all，比国产霸道总裁的水平还低一些。